WATCH PERFORMANCE EXCERPT AND POST-SHOW CONVERSATION

The theme guide for this event is available HERE.

DESCRIPTION:
“Timely, brilliant, and necessary.”—Dr. Angela Davis

“This is Baduizm.”—Erykah Badu

“Absolutely astonishing.”—Jane Fonda

Scholar, activist, playwright, artist, and one of the original organizers of Black Lives Matter Funmilola Fagbamila will perform The Intersection: Woke Black Folk, her acclaimed one-woman stage play about the complexities of Black political identity and how humans navigate difference. The Intersection premiered at the Pan African Film and Arts Festival in Los Angeles in 2018 and has toured across the Netherlands, England, France, and Brazil. The performance will be followed by a conversation with Fagbamila led by award-winning photojournalist, producer, author, and USC professor Miki Turner.

This event is part of Foresight Is 2020: Racial Justice and the Arts. Over four evenings of performance and discussion, USC faculty, students, alumni, and guests from Los Angeles and beyond will ask: What does a nation free of institutional racism look like, and how can the arts provide a vehicle for reaching it?
 
Bios:
Funmilola Fagbamila is a professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Fagbamila has been organizing with Black Lives Matter since its inception in 2013 and currently serves as the Arts and Culture director for the Los Angeles chapter. In 2015, Fagbamila was honored by the U.S. Congress and the Black Community, Clergy, and Labor Alliance for her activist scholarship and service. In 2017, she was awarded the inaugural activist-in-residence position at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. And in 2018, Amplify Africa and the U.S. Congress honored her with the African Excellence award in the field of education. Fagbamila’s writing, political analyses, and social commentary have been featured in outlets including The Guardian, BBC, NPR, Blavity, Le Monde (France), O Globo (Brazil), Fox Soul, Netflix, and NowThis News.

Miki Turner is a professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism who specializes in street, travel, and portrait photography. Her work has appeared in The Oakland Tribune, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Orange County Register, Chicago Tribune, Ebony, Jet, ESPN, MSNBC.com, BET.com, AOL.com, Essence, Caribbean Travel & Life, The Root, and several other publications.
 
Related Events (all times are PT):
New Leaders Now: Artists Advancing Racial Justice
Monday, October 12, at 5 p.m.
Live via Zoom
For more info and to RSVP, click here.

Arts, Activism, and the Academy: Addressing Racism within Higher Education 
Tuesday, October 13, at 7 p.m.
Live via Zoom
For more info and to RSVP, click here. 

Racial Radical: Generating New “Woke” Words
Wednesday, October 14, at 6:30 p.m.
Live via Zoom
For more info and to RSVP, click here.
 
Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative and USC Arts in Action. Organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art. Co-sponsored by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs (CBCSA), and the Black Student Assembly (BSA).